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Chris Barber, one of the top organizers of the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests that have rocked Ottawa in recent weeks, has been arrested and will likely face criminal charges.

The city of Ottawa threatened in a statement Thursday to place the pets of Freedom Convoy protestors into “protective care” or possibly take them away permanently if their owners are arrested.

Two Canadian provincial leaders and 16 American state governors signed a letter on Wednesday calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Joe Biden to end Wuhan coronavirus vaccine mandates for cross-border truckers.

Marion Isabeau-Ringuette, until last weekend director of communications for the office of Solicitor-General Sylvia Jones in Canada’s Ontario province, is one of several government staffers to lose their jobs after hackers exposed the list of Freedom Convoy donors from U.S. crowdfunding website GiveSendGo.

Canadian banks will receive the names of people involved in protests that have descended on the nation’s capital, a first step in a promised financial crackdown on demonstrators being instituted by the far-left government of Justin Trudeau.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received a formal reprimand in Parliament on Wednesday after accusing Conservative Party member Melissa Lantsman, a descendent of Holocaust survivors, of supporting “people who wave swastikas” for condemning his inflammatory rhetoric.

The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) warned Wednesday it was poised to deploy “Defence Force assets” to Wellington to disband an anti-coronavirus vaccine mandate protest near New Zealand’s parliament building after the rally pushed into its ninth consecutive day.

Even Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has called out a journalist who reported on the doxxed donors who contributed to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy.”

Canada’s Justice Minister, David Lametti, has told Trump supporters who donated to the “Freedom Convoy” to be worried about accounts frozen. 

“This is not Canada, anymore, this is a communist country,” said Christian, a Romanian-Canadian trucker with the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.

Quebec stepped up its “deconfinement plan” this week and began lifting coronavirus restrictions, while Premier Francois Legault rejected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s effort to crush the Freedom Convoy protest movement by invoking emergency powers.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Tuesday that his government will accelerate its timetable for lifting coronavirus restrictions, reopening businesses, and terminating its vaccine passport system.

Twitter remains silent on the sharing of material from the hack of Christian crowdfunding website GiveSendGo across its platform, despite the far-left tech company’s strict rules against sharing hacked materials.

At least one Canadian businesswoman claimed on Tuesday to have received threats after appearing on a list of alleged donors to Freedom Convoy protestors hacked from the site GiveSendGo and shared with media.

Freedom Convoy protesters voluntarily dismantled their blockade of the Coutts border crossing in Alberta province Tuesday, the day after Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized a cache of weapons in a morning raid, and Premier Jason Kenney asked protesters to go home before the blockade escalated into violence.

Brexit firebrand Nigel Farage has denounced the ‘dire threats’ made by the Trudeau government against Canada’s Freedom Convoy demonstrators, noting that it appears the Canadian Prime Minister is losing the battle on lockdown rules.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced another round of heckling and widespread laughter in Parliament on Tuesday, prompting audible cackling at his use of the term “responsible leadership” after invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act against anti-mandate protesters this week.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “abusing his power and using that to target his political opponents” with his handling of protests in Canada,

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that he doesn’t support breaking the law and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response to the protests in Canada “is the tyranny of the managerial

“I came here to pray for our prime minister … to make the right decision,” Mariusz, a retired military police officer, said in Ottawa.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for his poor handling his country’s anti-mandate protests, praised China’s dictatorship in a resurfaced video from 2013.

Two Canadian Civil Liberties groups criticised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act on Monday, arguing the move could normalise emergency legislation and threaten democracy.

Politicians in the United States and around the world condemned the Canadian government after it announced it would use anti-terrorism laws to quell a peaceful protest of its own citizens.

Most Americans support the Canadian truckers standing for freedom against coercive coronavirus mandates in the country and would support a similar movement in the United States, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found. 

The Canadian Press revealed on Monday that an alleged hack shows the majority of funds to the civil rights “Freedom Convoy” in the country on the website GiveSendGo come from Canada.

Breitbart News confirmed on Monday that the CBC is contacting Canadians whose personal details were leaked following a reported hack of GiveSendGo donor information related to a fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy.

Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly resigned from his position Tuesday after weeks of continued protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions by Freedom Convoy truckers, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers.

Several Canadian provincial executives resisted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of emergency powers on Monday to shut down the Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates. 

Wayne, a Freedom Convoy supporter in Ottawa, told Breitbart News nobody should “suffer from isolation” or “be stigmatized” for personal medical decisions.

Monday, FNC host Tucker Carlson called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to respond to the so-called Freedom Convoy truckers’ protest underway in Trudeau’s country a “defining moment” in its history.

Israelis staged their own Canada-style “Freedom Convoy” demonstration against coronavirus restrictions on Monday, with thousands of cars converging onto the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the capital of Jerusalem.

Twelve protesters were arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Monday following the discovery of multiple firearms at a freedom convoy blockade at the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alberta.

Wayne, a demonstrator supporting the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, ON, told Breitbart News on Saturday that families are being “destroyed” by divisions related to the politics of COVID-19.

Far-Left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is targeting crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrency transactions under Canada’s “terrorist financing” rules after the Freedom Convoy raised millions of dollars in support of its cause. 

After invoking emergency powers, far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatened to freeze assets and suspend insurance of those involved in the Freedom Convoy trucker protests.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the country’s history to crack down on protests against his vaccine mandate — just days after the Biden administration urged him to use “federal powers.”